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"More Catholic than the Pope". By contrast, I've attended Masses in someone's front room which were snakebelly-low! Go figure....

If you're asking whether I've ever undergone an 'evangelical-style conversion' then the answer is yes. It was May 9th, 1986, I was sweet sixteen and this evangelist came to the Christian Union at our school and preached the Gospel. It all made sense but was also for me building on the foundation...

I think that answers your question re gnosticism, Thomas: sadly, yes. "Now what", indeed.

Sorry, but you misunderstand me in your first sentence: I didn't feel unfulfilled when I was Catholic; my reference to that was to my time (over 20 years) as a dyed-in-the-wool evangelical. My wife also felt that at the time of her evangelical conversion as a child and feels that more so now...

Jesus is my Saviour. Absolutely. 100% But that's not the subject matter of this thread IMO.

But you see, Catholics don't see Scripture and Tradition in conflict. You might do, but that, I would humbly submit, is due to your interpretation of Scripture being in conflict with Tradition.

No, the thing is I don't feel 'guilty' , at least certainly not in the sense of 'condemned', but rather 'unfulfilled'. My wife put it well to me once: she remembers making a commitment to Christ at age 6 or thereabouts in her Plymouth Brethren home and asking her mother: "OK, I've done that, now...

For me it would be the issue of sanctification through the sacraments in particular; time and again I've seen sola fide used as an excuse for a lack of holy living ("'cos that's 'works', innit? I don't have to do anything to please God so I can please meself", etc) and I myself have come to the...

I think Catholics would agree that we are justified by grace not by law, so that's a bit of a straw man you're putting up there.

Thomas, try also Making Sense of Suffering by Peter Kreeft.

Are you then saying that the KKK liked Catholics? SolaSaint - if you're asking what Walter on what he bases his doctrine in your Scripture or Tradition question, then I would humbly submit that you're proposing a false dichotomy: the two are not IMO to be pitted against each other but rather...

Amen to that!

I agree it makes light of the ordinance/sacrament/whatever you want to call it. We may disagree about what baptism 'does' but I think we all agree that it's important and not to be used in a humourous manner.

...and your point being?

I'm not Walter but my answer - were I Catholic - would be "(Principally) neither, but rather Jesus Christ." (That's also my answer as someone "not in full communion with the See of Rome", BTW.)

Thanks! Apart from the statement about non-Catholic partner married to a Catholic having to pledge to raise any children of the marriage Catholic, this is rubbish and ill-informed. Even the bit about the non-Catholic spouse is not universal practice: whilst it is the case that the Catholic...

Please explain.

I don't read anything sinister into it at all. The following facts have to be taken into account: 1. ++Benedict had said for at least the last couple of years that he would throw in the towel if he no longer felt up to the job. 2. His doctor has in effect said he can't do any more...

I said 'pre-Constantinian', not 'Constantinian'.

A shock but not a surprise (if that makes sense): he's been banging on for the last couple of years or so that he'd throw in the towel if he thought he was too old or infirm. Good call, IMO - kudos to him. I dare say Tony Blair will be clearing his diary and waiting for the call....